Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IVserved as a United States Senator from West Virginia, from 1985 to 2015. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia to serve as a VISTA worker in 1964, and was first elected to public office in the state, as a member of the House of Delegates, in 1966. Rockefeller was later elected...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 June 1937
CountryUnited States of America
If the Senate oversight committees are either unwilling or unable to tackle the tough but necessary questions associated with detention, interrogation or rendition of prisoners, then we should step aside -- regrettably, if we have to -- and let the work be done by others unfettered by other considerations,
Let's find out if there is ... I don't know.
One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.
When (beneficiaries) call the 1-800 number, they can wait for a week, a month. They can wait until the Iraq war is over. Nobody answers the phone.
We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.
Until I receive additional information about the thoroughness of the investigation, I cannot make a judgment on the accuracy of the conclusions,
We have been pushing for a resolution on this issue since November. We are less than a month away from having some drug companies terminate these vital programs Nothing short of an immediate and complete clarification of these rules is acceptable.
The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
Two months have now passed since the bill signing ceremony and the position of director of national intelligence remains vacant, not even a person nominated. To me, this is unacceptable.
Everyone knows that coal mining is very dangerous, but you go into it every day thinking it's going to be all right.
It's always premature. It was premature that the Titanic went down. But it did indeed disappear.
It may be that they're tired of talking about the Brooklyn Bridge (terror plot), and they're trying to find a different edifice of some sort.
There are those of us on the Senate side who really do suspect, not politically but genuinely, that this is an effort -- the beginning of an effort and very obviously a huge beginning -- to gradually phase out Medicare as a public expense,
when the most senior officials in the Bush administration had already forcefully and repeatedly stated their conclusions publicly.